Roses, roses everywhere

I was never a fan of old English roses, preferring the HTs, and I never had one in any garden until now, when my son in law and grandson called in at David Austen roses on their way home from a football match. GS chose Vanessa Bell for me and his dad chose a different one for DD who does prefer old English roses. They are growing on me, seeing to have a longer flowering period than HTs.

Here’s Madam Alfred again, apparently it can be very useful for covering a small castle! Our Shropshire Lads are doing well too as well as Bonica (pink).

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More roses:

Our roses are exceptional this year: lots of flowers and some have grown beyond their expected height!

Those are all beautiful x

Whitewavemark2

I’m sure others are having just as good roses this year - I’ve seen a Madam Carriere (sp) somewhere, which I have but because I planted it in the wrong place it is never allowed to get to its full magnificence which is a shame.

I’ve just taken a couple, the photos don’t really reflect the amount of blossom.

These are Teasing Georgia (yellow) and Olivia (pink) . But I do have many other varieties - mostly climbing from white through to darkest red.

Oh they look gorgeous,are they perfumed too ?

Mine are all growing well but I've been battling with the ants that have been eating the petals on the buds. It's been super-dry here so I guess they need the moisture. Have used lots of ant powder round the bottom of each bush.
This is my new rose, 'Scent-imental' , glorious fragrance.

Ladyleftfieldlover

Here’s Madam Alfred again, apparently it can be very useful for covering a small castle! Our Shropshire Lads are doing well too as well as Bonica (pink).

Impressive.

Yep I pruned my rise bushes quite hard use &2nd prune and so beautiful yep good year after rain & sun

Only just started coming out here after the cold spring. We go away for a month tomorrow so I will miss them and my peonies. I’ll have to just admire them by looking a the camera on my ring door bell.

Agree . Mine are really good and laden

I have no beds, just a balcony so can only grow in pots, but my roses are lovely this year, great big lush flowers and my Gertrude Jekyll is particularly gorgeous, far more flowers than usual.
My jasmine stephanense has more flowers than in previous years, and my salvias are already flowering, they're usually much later. I have a perfumed phlox ("clouds of perfume") which is much bigger and floriferous than I ever remember and my honeysuckle is budding up and has no mildew at all. I don't think I've pampered any of my plants, just pelleted manure rose feed as usual for everything.
I also grow pears in troughs and one tree is absolutely covered with little fruits which I will have to thin out, something I don't normally need to do.

I love those two-tone roses DigginDoris!

My mum grew the best roses. Her pruning method was to cut the bushes down to around a foot high but they always came back beautifully. I’m too nervous to do that. Our gardener cuts M.Alfred back every couple of years with the help of a friend.

Ladyleftfieldlover

I love those two-tone roses DigginDoris!

My mum grew the best roses. Her pruning method was to cut the bushes down to around a foot high but they always came back beautifully. I’m too nervous to do that. Our gardener cuts M.Alfred back every couple of years with the help of a friend.

I must admit that after seeing your lovely photo I was wondering how you managed the pruning!

This was Open Arms last week. Planted 3 years ago and finally flourishing.

Mine are exceptionally beautiful this year, thriving on complete neglect.
I have never seen roses look so healthy either.

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These are lost label roses, like most of the ones I grow.

I love other people's roses but can't grow them myself. Thankyou for sharing these pics- I can smell them through the screen!

They are all lovely, but you must all live much farther south than I do. Here roses will not begin to bloom for another fortnight or three weeks.

My lilac is still blooming, the rhododendrons are just out, and so is the guelder rose. I took four large rhododendron blooms the dark red ones, and a bunch of the guelder roses up to my husband's grave this afternoon when I had finished mowing a long, uneven and very straggly lawn.

I'm in the south of Denmark, as most of you probably know.

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Agreed. Our roses look truly glorious this year. They really love the hot sunshine. Here are creamy climber Adelaide d'Orleans, and blush pink rambler Paul's Himalayan Musk. Enjoy!

This is my Paul’s Himalayan Musk from last June. It’s just starting to flower. I planted this, as my son is Paul. I also have ‘New Dawn’ after my daughter, ‘Rosa Meg’ and ‘Matilda’ after two of my granddaughters. I’ve struggled with a Salvia ‘Madeline’, another granddaughter, but had beautiful flowers from Tulipa ‘Gabriella’ one year.

Our neighbour across the road has a corner house with roses all around the front garden, she tells me they are about 25 years old and because she doesn’t know how to prune them properly last year she thought they were on their way out but this year they are magnificent. As I walked past her house yesterday with our dog I noticed the blooms on one rose bush were huge, I had to stop and look at them.

I don’t have any roses, although DC’s are just coming out and looking exceptional. We both have Red Robins for colour (hers about 6 years old and mine more than 15) which have both flowered for the first time this year and look glorious. I’ve seen them in flower everywhere locally, covered in blooms. It’s been a splendid year so far for our blossoms, so uplifting.

I have no idea what this rose is called but it smells absolutely beautiful, it was in the garden when we moved here 7 years ago and I’ve nurtured it.

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LadyGracie

I have no idea what this rose is called but it smells absolutely beautiful, it was in the garden when we moved here 7 years ago and I’ve nurtured it.

I have one rather like that, LadyGracie - I think it’s a David Austin. Gorgeous scent. Roses here doing really well.